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Homemade Christmas cards with kids: 5 easy ideas
Age: 3+ · Time: 30 min · For:
A homemade Christmas card is a gift in itself. Grandparents, teachers and friends treasure them far longer than a store-bought card. Here is a pop-up tree card for children of 6 and up, plus four easier ideas for little ones.
4 more easy ideas
- Handprint tree: a green handprint upside down is a tree; add fingerprint ornaments.
- Button tree: glue buttons in a triangle with a brown paper trunk.
- Snowy night: white chalk or paint dots on dark blue cardstock, with a paper house.
- Collage: cut pictures from last year's cards and make a new scene.
Tips
- Make a stack at once: set up a little production line around the table.
- Write the message together. Even a scribbled name from a toddler makes a card special.
You need
- thick paper or cardstock (letter-size), for example red, white or dark blue
- green paper
- scraps of colored paper
- child-safe scissors
- a glue stick
- a ruler and a pencil
- markers, colored pencils or paint
- stickers, glitter or cotton balls for snow (optional)
Steps
- Fold a sheet of cardstock in half to make the card.
- Pop-up tree: fold a strip of green paper of about 1½ x 8 inches like an accordion into four parts. Draw half a tree on the top part against the fold and cut it out through all layers, leaving the folds intact. You now have a little strip of trees.
- Open the card. Glue the first and last tree of the strip inside, one on each half of the card, so the trees stand up when the card is opened.
- Decorate the trees with stickers or dots of paint, and add a star on top.
- Write a Christmas greeting on the front and decorate it.
Questions
Which idea is best for toddlers?
The fingerprint or handprint ideas. Toddlers can do the printing while you fold and write.
How do I post homemade cards?
Keep them flat (avoid thick blobs of glitter or cotton balls on the outside) and check that they fit in a standard envelope.
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